Whatever you guys decide.. It was just that in the past it was one meeting with alot of promise and everyone disappeared :)
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Gerald Quimpo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey brent, > > as he said, in his earlier post and this one > On Saturday 19 July 2008 18:45:16 Kristopher Julius Alcordo wrote: > > mag setup raman ko ug forums.. hehe.. na point na sa NS po? :) > > he just wants to set up forums for this ML. however, i think that what > he was asking for was rather too broad. he suggested pointing the > whole domain at his server. I'd suggest pointing a subdomain. > it's unfortunate that, e.g., forums.cdo.linux.org.ph is a bit long, but > it would be more flexible (in terms of other services later) than pointing > cdo.linux.org.ph to him. i'm not sure that it's worth the trouble to > actually do the DNS change (do you administer the cdo.linux.org.ph > subdomain? or do we need to bother jijo or ian about that?). Possibly > simpler would be to just do an http redirect for forums.* to his > server. original post by Mr Alcordo is below. > > personally, i think forums are a mistake unless forum posts are also > mirrored to the list. but that's only because i never visit forums. > mailing lists give me one place to see everything i'm interested in. > i have to remember to visit forums, and generally, i'm just not going > to do that. i've set up RSS readers to read forums for me, but i tend > to give up on that too, after a while. > > if others here want to have web based forums, that's fine too, > I guess. although whether you (list owner) would be OK with a forum > weakening the list by having posts go there instead, is up to you > to decide :-). I don't know what the majority feeling on the list > might be, but I'd say that strengthening the group is more important > than increasing traffic on the list. so there is probably going to be > useful value to having that site. Particularly if the site has something > similar to jijo's techscene.free.net.ph, which is a feed aggregator that > pulls blogposts from members of PLUG and various filipino oriented free > software groups. > > while i don't much like forum style websites, having one (particularly > if, at minimum, mailing list posts are gatewayed into it, and optionally > forum posts are gatewayed to the ML) allows related forums (e.g., > urios, about which there was some discussion earlier) to link to the > website (which will, presumably, have better organization and perhaps > editing, than raw mailing list archives [which urios could also link to, > but which are not very friendly to browse around in]). > > > [Mr Alcordo said] > > Maayong adlaw sa tanan. I noticed that cdo.linux.org.ph is not being > > used or is not directed to any webserver or whatever :) So kung kinsa > > man kaha 2 ang ga administer anah nga domain point it to > > ns1.asmallorange.com or ns2.asmallorange.com kai buhatan nako ug > > forums/blog para magamit pud sa mga members :) > > > > Wala man gud access ang mga potential members unta to join our > > group.. :) Just a thought right after waking up so might be a bit > > fuzzy.. Share your thoughts on this please :) > > tiger > > -- > Gerald Timothy Quimpo [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://bopolissimus*blogspot*com http://monotrematica*blogspot*com > Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned > errors. > -- Thomas H Huxley > _________________________________________________ > Kagay-Anon Linux Users' Group (KLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/klug) > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Proud owner and administrator of www.nurseako.com Cagayan de Oro Video Gaming Community www.cdogamers.com
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